Your Vitamin D Requirements Are WAY Higher Than What Your Doctor Tells You

When I began researching Vitamin D requirements, being a nurse and interested in alternative health all of my life, I thought that I knew a bit about Vitamin D. Was I EVER wrong. I had no idea what I would discover. I’m familiar with the US RDA and know that the
Vitamin D dosage in most supplements is about 400 International Units
or IU’s. The US RDA, by the way, does not actually give a ‘recommended’
dosage for Vitamin D requirements. Instead, they give an ‘Adequate
Intake’ recommendation. This Vitamin D dosage is set at 200 IU’s/day
(all dosages are per day unless otherwise noted) for children and goes
up to 600 IU’s for the elderly. In Europe, the Vitamin D dosage is between 400 to 800 IU’s and The Canadian Cancer Society is the highest at 1000 IU’s.

Is Your Government Shortchanging Your Health?

There are TONS of Vitamin D research studies on
Vitamin D blood levels
and their effects on health and the current Vitamin D Research
describes the governmental recommendations for Vitamin D requirements as

"woefully inadequate, misleading and potentially harmful"

and that higher doses “would be far safer than the present median adult intake in the US"

Woefully inadequate and potentially harmful! Those are
strong words. Researchers used to believe that Vitamin D mainly
controlled calcium metabolism and therefore was only important in bone
health. But new Vitamin D research shows that it is extremely important
in regulating
The Immune System,
controlling the expression of thousands of genes and controlling the proliferation of cancer cells!

These functions require MUCH higher Vitamin D Requirements to work properly. These researchers believe that widespread Vitamin D deficiency could be a major contributing factor to the current epidemic of cancer and diabetes!!

So what are Optimal Vitamin D Requirements for Health?

Well, every Vitamin D research study has a different theory on the
exact Vitamin D dosage, but they are pretty close to each other – and
they are no where NEAR the government recommended daily dose of Vitamin D mentioned above.

On the
Vitamin D Levels page, I discuss the
Vitamin D Blood Test
levels that current Vitamin D research is recommending. This is a well
researched subject that doctors seem to be completely dismissing, and the daily dose of Vitamin D should be based on LEVELS, not some arbitrary amount that may not work for everyone.

So what are some recommendations?

The third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey suggests a daily dose of vitamin d of 3800 IU [per day] for those above a 25(OH)D level of 55 nmol/L (17.3 ng/ml) and a dose of 5000 IU for those below that. (see
Normal Vitamin D level
for translation of 25(OH)D). Yes, you read that right –

Yes, a daily dose of Vitamin D of 3800 to 5000 IU’s per day!
That is ten times greater than the US recommended daily intake!! Ten times!! And remember, these are the Vitamin D Requirements for MAINTAINING your levels. If you need

A Vitamin D research paper called ‘What is the Dose-Response Relationship between Vitamin D and Cancer Risk’ makes some shocking statements. It says that a Vitamin D dosage of 2000 IU’s would be a minimal dose to provide “meaningful… breast cancer reduction”.

They state unequivocally that a Vitamin D dosage of 3500 IU’s per day would prevent 50% of breast cancer incidences and would prevent over 350,000 cases of breast cancer worldwide!!

"The cost of taking a 5000 IU Supplement of Vitamin D every day for a year is $22.00...
The number and variety of diseases that
vitamin D at this dose could prevent...
is mind-boggling." -Donald Miller,MD. Cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington,Seattle.

And another doctor in clinical practice,
Dr. Joseph Pizzorno, cites his experience with 1500 Canadians. His
conclusion is, "...a loading dose of 10,000 IU's for 3 months and
maintenance of 5000 IU's is not enough [Vitamin D] for most people in
northern climes..."

This just goes to show you that your Vitamin D Requirements are MUCH higher than you've been told!

Vitamin D Dosage for Children

Infants and children have Vitamin D Requirements too.
Although this need is NOT understood well in the medical community.
While the 'traditional' view is that Vitamin D Deficiency in children
ONLY causes rickets, and indeed, the prevention of rickets is the
guideline by which the RDA is set. But more and more, research shows
that children need a daily dose of Vitamin D for MUCH more that just the prevention of
rickets. Although the rickets issue, too, may need may be revisited as
Rickets Makes a Comeback.

But just like adults, simply not having rickets does not necessarily mean that children have optimal Vitamin D levels
or that they are having their Vitamin D requirements met. Children
could have severe repercussions from having Vitamin D deficiency too.

Dr. John Cannell of the
Vitamin D Council
gives what we might consider a VERY high vitamin d dosage for children:

Dr. Cannell's RecommendedVitamin D Dosage for Children

"As a general rule, breast fed infants
need 1,000 IU per day, bottle fed infants
an extra 600 IU per day.
Children generally need about 1,000 IU for every 25 pounds of body weight.
So a 75 pound nine-year-old needsabout 3,000 IU per day. This is
in the absence of significant sun-exposure..."

In addition, a retrospective study of Finnish infants given Vitamin D
and followed up years later showed an 80-90% reduction in the incidence
of diabetes with a daily dose of Vitamin D of 2000 IU's a day throughout the first year of
life! That's more than twice the recommended dose for pregnant women in
the United States!

Vitamin D Requirements
For Pregnancy and Lactation

While the RDA of Vitamin D for pregnant and lactating women has been
stuck between 600 to 800 IU's per day for decades, there has been PLENTY
of research that should have made governments take notice that these
unique conditions require a MUCH MUCH higher daily dose of Vitamin d than the
paltry recommendations that governments are making. The latest of these
studies showed that women who took 4000 IU's of Vitamin D during pregnancy had:

Still had infants that were born vitamin d deficient

Had Fewer Infections than women taking either 400 or 2000 IU's of vitamin d per day

Had HALF the pregnancy or labor complications as women taking 400 IU's per day

The studies on Vitamin D and Breastfeeding
are just as damning. Women taking 400 IU's of vitamin d are not
producing enough vitamin d to even prevent Rickets in their babies.
Studies of 1000 IU's, 2000 IU's, 4000 IU's and 6400 IU's of Vitamin d
per day show that ONLY the mothers that were taking 6400 IU's per
day were able to make enough Vitamin D to meet their baby's RDA of
Vitamin D! Read more about this on the Vitamin D and Breastfeeding page.

So, what I want to know is why no one in the medical community is
talking about the need for higher Vitamin D Requirements?? There is a
huge amount of evidence out there showing that Vitamin D requirements should be MUCH higher than governmental recommendations and that more people getting more Vitamin D will absolutely save tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives.

But your doctor is not likely to be educated on current scientific
recommendations of Vitamin D dosage. Remember, Vitamin D, as well as A, E
and K, are FAT SOLUBLE vitamins. This means that any excess gets stored in your body. If you get too much, you CANOverdose on Vitamin D
and cause Vitamin D toxicity. While this is rare with Vitamin D and the
chance of taking too much are practically ZERO if you follow
recommended dosages and get your
Vitamin D Blood Levels Tested
yearly, you must always remember that it IS possible. Keep reading for
more information on the RIGHT supplements, and learn about Vitamin D
overdose.

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